Where did spiderman get the symbiont suit from in the comics?

Answer 1

A symbiote, in Marvel Comics' fictional universe, is a living alien organism that bonds with another living organism (usually a human, although it may bond with non human animals) in order to survive. Since it has no classifying name, it is referred to as a symbiote because of its symbiotic relationships. Often symbiotes are called "living costume" because of the way the amorphous creatures envelope their hosts.

In Spider-Man, the fathers of Peter Parker and Eddie Brock Jr. had created the suit as a protoplasmic cure for cancer. The first stage would be to cover the host's body and eliminate a disease in the patients body. Stage Two would involve the suit enhancing the wearer's strength and natural abilities. The suit was unfinished as Bolivar Trask stole the project from the scientists, but Eddie Brock Sr. saved a small sample for his son to find.

Peter Parker first tries the suit on and ends up with the well-known black costume.

Answer 2

Wow talking about rewriting the story to eliminate a bad mini-series.
While others may have the new answers for the suit. Here is the story from the 80's...
Spidey found the suit on a different planet. Hmmmm Long story.
Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars is the name of a twelve-issue Marvel Comics' comic book limited series produced between 1984 and 1985, and a Mattel toy line that reflected the series.

The series, which was conceived to launch the toy line, was written by Marvel's then-Editor-in-chief Jim Shooter and primarily pencilled by Mike Zeck. The story was a large scale crossover, in which many of Marvel's most popular super-heroes and super-villains were transported to an alien planet and pitted against each other in an all-out battle.

Although the toy line was discontinued in 1985, the miniseries was a hit for Marvel, breaking sales records for a monthly comic at the time of its release and spawning an almost immediate sequel: Secret Wars II.

The series had several immediate consequences for a number of Marvel Universe characters. Spider-Man encountered a symbiotic creature on the planet that enveloped him and expressed itself as a new black costume which produced its own web supply. Spider-Man initially thought that the creature was an advanced synthetic costume produced by an alien machine; it wasn't until after almost a year of continuity in the Spider-Man comics that Peter Parker discovered the true nature of the creature, as it tried to take over Parker's body and bond permanently with him. Spider-Man was able to rid himself of the creature with the help of Reed Richards, and when the creature subsequently escaped from the Fantastic Four's headquarters, it bonded with Eddie Brock to become the supervillain Venom. A new Spider-Woman, Julia Carpenter was introduced, Colossus had an affair with an alien on battleworld which led him to break up with Shadowcat when he returned to Earth, and two new supervillainesses - Titania, a bullying powerhouse and her friend Volcana - were created.

Answer 3

mimoll has it correct, though he left some blank spots. The Secret Wars series had an ultimate power, even more powerful than Galactus, who brought the heroes and villains to "Battleworld" A world that was a patchwork of many different worlds (including Denver CO from Earth). One of those worlds was the origin of the Sybiote costume that Spiderman mistook as a new costume.

Also, as sides, Magneto was downgraded from evil villain to misunderstood.

Dr Doom shows his superiority over all by making Ultron his lap dog, stealing the power of Galactus, then stealing the power of the Beyonder himself. Even the Enchantress would not dare to cross Doom.

Answer 4

You guys have it dead on. Reason why it became black wasn't exactly by choice. When using the replicator machine to "fix" his damaged suit in Secret Wars, the glob of symbiote took on the image Peter Parker had in his head of Spiderwoman's costume at the time----all black with the white spider on the chest.
Later on in the 90's, when Eddie Brock escaped from prison, a drop of the costume landed on the busted out wall of the prison cell he was sharing with Cletus Cassidy, bonding with him to create Cargage. If you like venom, do a search on Carnage. He's nastier, but for me Venom is still the top dog.

Answer 5

Got if from the Beyonder realm during the first Secret Wars. Probably the only cool thing to come from that dorky series.

Answer 6

I believe that in the original comics, astronauts disover the symbiont on space and brought it back to earth, at which point it found spiderman.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiote_(comics)

Answer 7

I don't know exactly, but I think it came from outer space....he was in space or something....not sure though

Answer 8

It was actually an alien.

Answer 9

He made it. Nothing special.